Letter: Chico's general plan a farce

It's interesting to read Chico's general plan and realize there is not one single equitable, sustainable or pedestrian-friendly scheme that is not a borrowed conceit. This one-size-fits-all manifesto, along with new municipal codes and zoning ordinances, has been used to bully and intimidate ordinary citizens, concerned about their neighborhoods, into mute submission.

Now we are told that as responsible citizens, we must make way for more "capital projects" that include "contaminated site development" if we just ignore the specter of bankruptcy at the door.

A rose by any other name would smell as sweet as redevelopment, be it called a successor agency or capital improvement project. And the city's tired new euphemism "sustainable task force" is nothing more than what farmers used to call pulling the wool over one's eyes.

To quote Wordsworth, "Getting and spending we lay waste our powers: Little we see in nature that is ours&amp"

Perhaps city hall could learn a bit about economic and environmental sustainability by walking outside its hallowed halls and burying some of that white paper in Chico's fertile soil.